The situation is becoming increasingly tense Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, where Israel is between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning bombed those who the spokesman for the Israeli army, Daniel Hagarreported to be training centers and gun depots of Hamas, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh As of Wednesday, Beirut sits alongside some uninhabited places nearby Al Kolayleh, near the southern Lebanese city of Tire. In the early afternoon the chief of the Israeli army Herzl Halevi then he ordered them Mobilization of the reservistswith special priority for anti-defense forces air and staff of aviation. In the same hours, three Israeli settlers – two sisters and their mother from the illegal settlement of Efrat – walked in south of Jerusalem – were killed by some shots fired by militant Palestinians in the West Bank, sparking further reprisals from other settlers against leaving or entering Palestinian citizens Ramallah.
According to Hareetz analyst Amos Harelthis is the most sensitive situation on the security side of Israel’s northern border since the war with Hezbollah from 2006, although the Party of God was not directly involved in this case by the Israeli authorities, they believe Hamas – which has some representations in Lebanon, for example in the refugee camps of Al Rashidiyenear Tire – responsible for the increase in tensions, which they nevertheless reiterated that they are considering it lebanese state, and above all the same Hezbollah, responsible for any threat emanating from its territory.
Israeli raids at the moment They caused no casualties and appearing to be “demonstrative” in nature, they were actually performed the day after Volleys of rockets rained down on Israeli territory from both the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, again in response to violent crackdowns in the two days leading up to Israeli Defense Forces within the have performed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, ended with about thirty wounded and more 350 arrests of believers busy with the prayers of the month ramadan. Rockets from southern Lebanon had not landed in Israel for about two years, and while no NR group has so far claimed the launch, some sources cited by Al Jazeera call it the work of some Palestinian formations based in Lebanon.
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Of the 34 rockets – next to the 44 from Gaza – abandoned by some batteries placed near the town on Thursday morning marjayoun — where a launcher was found this morning — twenty-five would have been intercepted by the system iron domewhile the others would have fallen between them Sea and sparsely populated areas near Israeli border villages like Matsuva, Hanita, Eylon, Admit, Rosh Hanikra, Hila and Shlomiwhere 20 minutes before the impacts die Emergency sirens to warn the population to flee in the bunkers. However, three Israeli citizens were slightly injured in the operation Shrapnel from the missiles and taken to the hospital, while the closure of both Israeli airspace and bathing establishments on the north coast of the country was ordered. Web of potentially explosive premises crowding Tel Aviv to gather troops mainly in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, while analysts such as For example, there are currently no significant movements near the northern border Sam Naderof the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs, is currently Escalation is unlikely between Hezbollah and Israel in the coming weeks. “None of us have an interest in things escalating,” Nader commented.
If the government of Benjamin Netanyahu could have an interest in recent days in diverting public attention from its judicial problems, from the judicial reform and from the very participatory protests that the latter has encouraged in various cases Israeli cities to an external threat represented by Hamas or Hezbollah, it is equally realistic to believe that the Israeli executive branch cannot currently, for existential reasons, afford to: a new war front. “Netanyahu is currently unable to deal with an escalation – he comments Hoda Abdel-Hamid on Al Jazeera – because he has too many problems running his government, especially a bad relationship with his Secretary of Defense, Yoav Gallantwhich he just tried to fire, and with i security guardswho in recent days have reiterated how the Prime Minister’s proposed judicial reform can have a significant impact on security management in Israel”.
A similar argument may also apply to the same thing Hezbollahgrappling with the Lebanese economic crisis – which is hitting the already impoverished population in the south of the country hard – and with a delicate and fragile negotiation process for a new president of the republic, which the recent rapprochement could positively influence Saudi Arabia And Iran. War with Israel at this point would result in the party of God being discredited institutional stakeholdersRecalibrating and strengthening the perception of a militia dragging the country in He doesn’t seek conflict. However, attention should be paid to the reasons for the persistence of Ismail Haniyeh In Lebanon. It is unclear whether the Palestinian leader However, he will meet with Lebanese authorities, the Lebanese journalist said Suhaib JawharHaniyeh is sure to see Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and the leader of the other Shia party, as well as the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. Nabi Berry. According to Jahwar, the purpose of the visit is to strengthen coordination between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which is also present with some representatives and TV channels based in Lebanese territory. According to a Brookings report, the four subjects joined forces in some joint operations as early as May 2021, and the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, revealed in a documentary aired by Al Jazeera in 2022 that the operations were being directed from Lebanon.